effect on efficiency is related to differences in hospital planning in Germany and Switzerland. Based on the comparable …A nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is performed on hospitals in the federal state of Saxony (Germany) and … countries. Finally, hospital beds are treated as a discretionary input in one DEA and as a fixed input in the other, and the …

Mental Health Research and Training Hospital located in Istanbul/Turkey and LVR-Klinik Viersen in Germany. A comparison of … performed in health care systems in Germany and Turkey. Several studies on the hospital quality of both countries pointed out to … management systems have been undergoing radical changes. Social health insurance system was established in Germany in 1880s and …

This paper examines the efficiency of the German hospital sector over time and the relative efficiency of public …, welfare (both nonprofit) and private (for-profit) hospital sectors using data from the Federal Statistics Office of German … hospitals. Efficiency scores were computed using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The absolute efficiency of the hospital sector …

Major disparities in the cost of health care have made the pricing of specialist and hospital services a contentious …

Here; data on the actual hospital infrastructure in Germany are summarised and presented. This does not allow any … is that Germany has a high hospital bed density in comparison to other countries, also in the field of intensive and …In diesem Report werden Daten zum Stand der Krankenhausinfrastruktur in Deutschland - auch im Vergleich zu anderen …

healthcare of IBD patients in Germany?" Methods: We combined a claims dataset from a German health insurance fund with population …

This paper examines the determinants of hospital stay intensity, the decision to seek hospital care as a public or … private patient and the decision to purchase private hospital insurance. We describe a theoretical model to motivate the … evidence of endogeneity between the decision to purchase insurance on the type and intensity of hospital care use. We find some …

The health care system in Germany is undergoing a phase of transformation. The resulting challenges and fields of …